Mayhem.pdf

书籍描述

"Few writers blend mystery and the supernatural as well as Sarah Pinborough, but there are none who do it better. Quite, quite brilliant."—John Connolly

"Pinborough’s fiction moves at a breakneck pace. Once you start, you can’t stop." —Sarah Langan

"She rides the line between gritty realism and otherworldly weirdness without ever toppling over." —SFX

作者简介Sarah Pinborough was once a teacher, but now writes full-time. She is developing an original horror screenplay, Cracked, and her supernatural crime series, The Dog-Faced Gods, for TV. She lives in West London.

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A historical crime alternate reality investigating the Thames Torso murders and set against the backdrop of the Jack the Ripper killings.

Date of birth: 28/03/72 Place of birth: England Citizenship: UK

Name of spouse: None

Name and ages of children: None

Brief summary of education (or attach a CV):

Private boarding school till 18 BA (Eng/History) PGCE English

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Teacher, nightclub/stripclub manager, barmaid, business troubleshooter (went into businesses and turned them round to be sold on). And so many others...;-)

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Facebook – Sarah Pinborough Twitter - @sarahpinborough

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When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn’t take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night.

But though just as gruesome, this is the hand of a colder killer, one who lacks Jack’s emotion.

Dr Bond, plagued by insomnia and an unshakable sense of foreboding, has begun to spend his sleepless nights in a drug-induced haze in the opium dens down by the docks. He’s not the only man who looks like he doesn’t belong there: there is a stranger, a man in a long black coat, who spends his nights studying the addicts as they dream.

As more headless and limbless torsos find their way into the Thames and Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer he begins to suspect the stranger might be the key. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance, he starts to wonder: is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London, or a monster?

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The 2009 winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella Three time short-listed for British Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Short-listed for a World Fantasy Award for best short story. Short listed for the Shirley Jackson award for best novella.

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内容简介Mayhem is a masterwork of narrative suspense: a supernatural thriller set in a shadowy, gaslit London, where monsters stalk the cobbled streets and hide in plain sight.

A new killer is stalking the streets of London’s East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him "the Torso Killer", this murderer’s work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel crimes.

The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames--and the heads are missing. The murderer likes to keep them.